Masculinities in the African National Congress-led liberation movement: The underground period

Extracted from text ... Masculinities in the asculinities African National Congress- led liberation movement movement: The underground period : Raymond Suttner* This article aims to uncover elements of the formation and manifestations of masculinities within the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies. While notions of masculinity or masculinities have been examined in other literature, this work tries to specify the precise character of a distinct process and phenomenon in an organisation, primarily in its period of illegality. This bears resemblances to that found in other situations, but ANC masculinities have specificities that need to be brought into the foreground. This enquiry locates ..